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[Stefan li Rous]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa replied:
>> Would these be the little nibbly snack like at a cocktail party on a bit more medievally?
>
> Yes, pick period foods that can be presented in cocktail-party-snack
> fashion. :)
You will have to look through this and figure out which ones meet your particular level of documentation desired, but here is a place to start:

finger-foods-msg  (24K)  9/ 2/02    Ideas for finger foods at feasts and events.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/finger-foods-msg.html
The foods in this one are likely to be much more documentable. :-)

14C-Fingerfds-art (10K) 10/14/01    "English - 14th Century Fingerfoods"
                                        by THL Kateryn de Develyn.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/14C-Fingerfds-art.html
wafers-msg        (72K)  3/30/01    Period savory and sweet wafers. Recipes.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/wafers-msg.html

There are a number of possiblities for finger foods in the FOOD-SWEETS
section, so I don't think I'll give all the URLs or files, but here are a few:
14C-Sweets-art    (17K)  9/14/00    "Sweets and Treats of the 14C"
                                        by Lady Hauviette d'Anjou.
3-Span-Sweets-art (13K)  4/26/01    Three Spanish sweet dishes from de Nola by
                                        Vicente.
comfits-msg       (44K)  9/ 1/02    Period candied spices and seeds. Recipes.
cookies-msg       (99K)  1/ 8/02    Period cookies. Recipes.
desserts-msg     (112K)  1/12/01    Medieval and SCA dessert recipes. Sweets.
Digby-Cakes-art   (12K)  6/30/01    "Excellent Small Cakes Revisited"
                                        by Tirloch of Tallaght.
gingerbread-msg   (45K)  2/26/02    Medieval gingerbread. Recipes.

Stefan
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